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Event. 632. Great Bulgaria was formed after the unification of the tribes of Kutrigurs, Utigurs, and Onogurs (Onodonduri). 635. A peace treaty was signed by Kubrat with the Byzantine Empire. 668. Khazar 's pressure caused Great Bulgaria to decline. Volga Bulgaria (7th century–1240s) is formed. 680/681.
The history of Bulgaria can be traced from the first settlements on the lands of modern Bulgaria to its formation as a nation-state, and includes the history of the Bulgarian people and their origin. The earliest evidence of hominid occupation discovered in what is today Bulgaria date from at least 1.4 million years ago. [1]
History of Bulgaria. Dark Ages c. 6th–7th cent. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the 1878 Treaty of Berlin set up an autonomous state, the Principality of Bulgaria, within the Ottoman Empire. Although remaining under Ottoman sovereignty, it functioned independently, taking Alexander of Battenberg as its first prince in 1879.
Old Great Bulgaria (Medieval Greek: Παλαιά Μεγάλη Βουλγαρία, Palaiá Megálē Voulgaría), also often known by the Latin names Magna Bulgaria [5] and Patria Onoguria ("Onogur land"), [6] was a 7th-century Turkic nomadic empire formed by the Onogur-Bulgars on the western Pontic–Caspian steppe (modern southern Ukraine and southwest Russia). [7]
Old Great Bulgaria 7th cent., 632–668. First Bulgarian Empire 681–1018. Christianization. Golden Age 896–927. Cometopuli dynasty 968–1018. Byzantine Bulgaria 1018–1185. Second Bulgarian Empire 1185–1396. Second Golden Age 1230–1241. Mongol invasion 1274–1300.
Bulgarian Empire. Bulgarian Empire may refer to: First Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian state that existed from 681 to 1018. Second Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian state that existed from 1185 to 1396. Third Bulgarian Empire, late modern Bulgarian state that existed from 1908 to 1946.
Roman times 46–681. Dark Ages c. 6th–7th cent. Old Great Bulgaria 7th cent., 632–668. First Bulgarian Empire 681–1018. Christianization. Golden Age 896–927. Cometopuli dynasty 968–1018. Byzantine Bulgaria 1018–1185. Second Bulgarian Empire 1185–1396.
Bulgaria gains Strumica, Western Thrace, and a section of the Aegean Littoral. Romania first gains from Bulgaria the port of Silistra with the Protocol of St. Petersburg of 1913 and then the region of Southern Dobruja following the Second Balkan War. With these losses, the Ottoman Empire is almost completely cut off from Europe.